Cat Litter For Bonsai Tree

Cat litter for bonsai soil is a contentious subject.

Cat litter for bonsai tree.

Mar 8 2012 large website located in the uk bonsai4me offers bonsai art species guides for bonsai trees bonsai galleries and bonsai techniques. Blue ribbon cat litter. It s best to check if a make of cat litter is acceptable as soil for bonsai by soaking some of it for 48 hours in water to work out if it breaks down. You will all throw that mini soil in the trash where it belongs.

Natural cat litter as alternative to akadama. I find all these litter diatomite haydite and turface products much too small for bonsai purposes. Cat litters based on fired clay materials provide a perfect growing media where they are blended with other materials. Cat litter cat litter comes in various forms and it s use in bonsai cultivation has become common over the last few years.

If your bonsai species require a more water retentive soil mixture then you just need to add about ten p c chopped bark to the pussy cat litter. In this video i compare it with akadama detailing some of the advantages and disadvantages of cat litte. Cat litter for soil. All copies are signed by the author.

Cat litters are cheap and readily available but one overriding concern needs to be considered. It doesn t have the chemicals added that cat litter has to make the perfumed smell. Soil and fertilizer incl water and repotting 7. Order your copy here.

Switch to 1 4 to 3 8 size aggrigate in one or two bonsai and watch the difference in vigor. Soil and fertilizer incl water and repotting 34. The foundations of bonsai written and developed over the past 15 years is out now. The cat litter sold by tesco sophisticat is terramol.

They do two grades 3 6mm standard grade a 1 3 shohin grade.